Thank you! Thank you for that amazing welcome.
Thank you all for the great convention that we’ve had.
And Chelsea, thank you. I 'm so proud to be your mother and so proud of the woman you 've become. Thanks for bringing Marc into our family, and Charlotte and Aidan into the world.
And Bill, that conversation we started in the law library 45 years ago is still going strong. It 's lasted through good times that filled us with joy, and hard times that tested us.
And I 've even gotten a few words in along the way.
On Tuesday night, I was so happy to see that my Explainer-in-Chief is still on the job. I 'm also grateful to the rest of my family and the friends of a lifetime. To all of you whose hard work brought us here tonight. And to those of you who joined our campaign this
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And I want to thank Bernie Sanders. Bernie, your campaign inspired millions of Americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary. You 've put economic and social justice issues front and center, where they belong.
And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I 've heard you. Your cause is our cause. Our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion. That 's the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for America. We wrote it together – now let 's go out there and make it happen together.
My friends, we 've come to Philadelphia – the birthplace of our nation – because what happened in this city 240 years ago still has something to teach us today.
We all know the story. But we usually focus on how it turned out - and not enough on how close that story came to never being written at all.
When representatives from 13 unruly colonies met just down the road from here, some wanted to stick with the King. Some wanted to stick it to the king, and go their own way. The revolution hung in the balance. Then somehow they began listening to each other … compromising … finding